on 12-19-2008 3:00 PM Lanny Marcus spake the following:
On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 6:21 PM, MHR mhullrich-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org wrote:
<snip> > TigerDirect.com has a $99 box available, and it's pretty low end, but > it might suit your purposes.
As I wrote a couple of nights ago, if I was in the USA, I would order one of those, without giving it a second thought. Wonderful! Next Monday morning, I am going to go to a shopping center in Cali, where there are *lots* of stores that sell computer stuff and see if I can come up with something like that.
We have four (4) Dell Dimension boxes and their support here is *SUPER*, but they use proprietary cases, motherboards and power supplies. Their quote of USD$237 for a new motherboard is probably not something I am going to follow up on. The box is running most of the time, which is puzzling, because it is an intermittent problem.
My wife just made me an offer I may refuse: She told me to go to the Dell web site for Colombia and look for a new, inexpensive box there. They have one with Ubuntu Linux on it, for about US$700 with a monitor and 3 year in house warranty. Maybe..... :-)
While you are looking on the Dell site, sometimes they have some good deals under the "Reconditioned" systems. Most of them have had nothing more than someone got the system and sent it back within the 30 days because they didn't like it. They are usually at least 20% cheaper.